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We're going to be singing a flag to follow.
Welcome to Shur Foundation Baptist Church.
If you could find your seats and grab your blue hymn books and turn to page number 495.
We're going to be singing a flag to follow.
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Song 495, a flag to follow in your blue hymn books. Let's sing it together on the first.
I sought a flag to follow, a cause for which to stand.
I sought a valiant leader who could my love command.
I sought a stirring challenge, some noble work to try.
To give my life fulfillment, my dreams to satisfy.
I found them all in Jesus, the life, the truth, the way.
Beneath his flag I'll take my stand and follow him today.
I sought a ringing answer for all my doubts inside.
A torch of truth uplifted, my searching steps to guide.
I sought a word of wisdom, a true authority.
I sought to know life's purpose to solve its mystery.
I found them all in Jesus, the life, the truth, the way.
Beneath his flag I'll take my stand and follow him today.
I sought for satisfaction for yearnings deep within.
I sought for full deliverance from chains of guilt and sin.
I sought for peace and pardon for freedom from my fears.
I sought a hope to cling to beyond these passing years.
I found them all in Jesus, the life, the truth, the way.
Beneath his flag I'll take my stand and follow him today.
Amen. Good to see you, Brother Sean Conlon. Could you help us open a word of prayer?
Heavenly Father, I thank you for this day and I thank you for this church and all the years this church has been around for.
I pray that you would just continue to bless this church that you would just be with us always
and I pray that you would go, you would be a church established for television and I pray that you would bless this day and our fellowship together.
Amen. Our second song will be song number 39, Crown Him With Many Crowns.
Song number 39, Crown Him With Many Crowns.
Song number 39, Crown Him With Many Crowns. Let's lead together on the first.
Crown him with many crowns, the lamb upon his throne.
Hark how the heavenly anthem drowns all music but its own.
Awake my soul and sing of him who died for thee and hail him as thy matchless king through all eternity.
Crown him the Lord of love, behold his hands and sign.
Rich wounds yet visible above in beauty glorified.
No angel in the sky can fully bear that sight.
But downward bends his wandering eye at mysteries so bright.
Crown him the Lord of life who triumphed o'er the grave.
Who rose victorious to the strife for those he came to save.
His glories now we sing who died and rose on high.
Who died eternal life to bring and lives that death may die.
Crown him the Lord of head, one with the Father known.
One with the Spirit through him given from yonder glorious throne.
To thee be endless praise, for thou for us hast died.
Be thou Lord through endless days adored and magnified.
Amen. This time I'll have our announcements.
Good morning everybody. Welcome to Church Foundation Baptist Church.
Let's take our bulletins and go through some announcements.
Anybody need a bulletin, just raise your hand.
One of the ushers will come by and bring you a bulletin. Anybody need one?
There's one over here, one over there.
Alright, on our front cover we have our verse of the week.
It says, And I say also unto thee that thou art Peter and upon this rock I will build my church
and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Matthew chapter 16 verse 18.
And of course the Lord builds the church.
And I just want to say happy anniversary to our church family.
And this weekend is our sixth anniversary of course.
We've had a great weekend so far.
I heard some great preaching by our evangelist brother Wynn.
And it's been great to have his family here.
We had a good day of fellowship yesterday.
We had one salvation I think out there yesterday.
And brother Drew didn't even have to go to Jamaica to get the Jamaican saved.
So that was pretty cool.
And we had some good fellowship and food yesterday.
So on our inside page there we have our service times.
Our Sunday morning service 10 30 a.m. Sunday evening service 3 30 p.m.
Thursday Bible study is at 6 30 p.m.
We're going through the book of 1 Chronicles.
We'll be in chapter number 5 this Thursday.
Our soul winning times are listed below.
We have soul winning today at 1 p.m.ish.
We are having food after the service.
So that might be bumped up a little bit there.
And right after service if we could get some.
Oh we already got the ushers. You guys are great.
We already have the table set out so that's good.
The round table pizza is supposed to be here.
I told them 11 30 because last time I told them I told them 12 and they got here like 12 45.
So I just told them 11 30.
So hopefully they'll get here by 12 something.
So but I think they don't even open till 11.
So we'll be hard pressed to get here by 12 30.
So if they get here by 12 30 that's great.
So but we are having round table pizza today.
And we're also having cake and ice cream to celebrate our church anniversary.
I got two different kinds of cakes and they're both from Costco at the white cake and the brown cake.
So I don't want to be multicultural here.
So anyway we also have plenty of ice cream.
There's vanilla ice cream and then there's also all kinds of different ice cream bars and stuff like that.
So that will be after we have lunch.
We'll cut up that cake.
And if I could get some volunteers to help with the survey maybe the serving of the cake and ice cream.
That'd be great.
And maybe some people to help clean up if anybody wants to stay back and help clean up or just maybe clean up right after we're done eating.
That'd be great.
And tonight we're going to have a men's preaching night after we do soul winning.
So the praise reports down there on the left hand page there.
And again after church round table pizza and ice cream.
So you don't want to miss out on that and cake.
And tonight again men's preaching night.
So if you have a ten minute sermon you want to preach.
Who's preaching tonight?
I just want to get a one, two, three, four, five, six.
OK.
So great.
That's perfect.
All right.
So six guys.
And if you change your mind you can just jump in and put your name in the hat.
So let's see.
Let's see.
September 13th through 15th we have the Schur Foundation Baptist North sixth anniversary.
Justin Zong is going to be preaching on Friday night.
Lord willing.
And I'm sure we'll have all kinds of fun festivities going on up there.
And I'll be preaching up there Sunday.
We have the annual pumpkin patch.
Friends and family weekend October 6th and 7th.
And then Pastor Mendez will be preaching that Sunday night.
November 6th through 10th is the faithful word missions conference if you're interested in going to that.
And then December 15th we have Dr. Phil Stringer preaching for us.
And we're a family integrated church.
Of course you already know that.
Mom baby room is back there.
Dad baby room back there.
You need to take your children back there.
Please utilize those rooms at your convenience.
Make sure you turn off your cell phones and observe the rules underneath the family integrated church boldness there.
And let's see the tithes and offerings.
I have a couple asterisks next to it because I didn't have the information before we put the bulletin in there.
So that'll be updated next week.
And let's see we're all good on anniversaries and birthdays.
So with that being said. Oh Bebe.
Bebe's birthday is today.
Oh wow let's sing happy birthday.
Where's Sophie at?
Are you sitting with your other family? What's going on?
So how old are you going to be Bebe?
Ten.
Twelve.
All right.
Let's sing happy birthday.
Happy birthday to you.
Happy birthday.
God bless you.
Happy birthday to you.
All right.
Sorry I didn't have that on there.
All right.
Go ahead and sing another song. We'll receive the offering.
All right our next song will be song number 392.
It is well with my soul.
Song number 392.
It is well with my soul.
Song 392. Remember the chorus that splits for the ladies first and then the guys follow up.
Let's sing it together on the first.
When peace like a river attendeth my way.
When sorrows like sea billows roll.
Whatever my lot thou hast taught me to say.
It is well.
It is well with my soul.
It is well.
With my soul.
It is well.
It is well with my soul.
Great singing on the second.
Though Satan should buffet.
Though trial should come.
Let this blast assurance control.
That Christ hath regarded my helpless sustain.
And has shed his own blood for my soul.
It is well.
With my soul.
It is well.
It is well with my soul.
My sin oh the bliss of this glorious thought.
My sin not in part.
But the whole is nailed to the cross.
And I bear it no more.
Praise the Lord.
Praise the Lord oh my soul.
It is well.
With my soul.
It is well.
It is well with my soul.
And Lord haste the day.
When my faith shall be signed.
The clouds be rolled back as a scroll.
The trump shall resound.
And the Lord shall descend.
Even so.
It is well with my soul.
It is well.
It is well with my soul.
Amen.
Great singing.
Brother Ramon, would you bless the offering for us?
Thank you so much for our church for this day that we get to celebrate our anniversary.
I just pray you bless all we do here today.
And bless this offering as well in Jesus name.
Thank you.
Genesis chapter number 26.
If you don't have a Bible, there should be a Bible under the seat in front of you.
Genesis 26.
Genesis 26 the Bible reads,
And there was a famine in the land,
beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham.
And Isaac went unto Abimelech, king of the Philistines, unto Gerar.
And the Lord appeared unto him, and said,
Go not down into Egypt.
Dwell in the land which I shall tell of thee.
Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee.
For unto thee and unto thy seed I will give all these countries,
and I will perform the oath which I swear unto Abraham, thy father.
And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven,
and will give unto thy seed all these countries.
And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed,
because that Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge,
my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
And Isaac dwelt in Gerar, and the men of the place asked him of his wife,
and he said, She is my sister.
For he feared to say, She is my wife, lest said he,
the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah.
But she was fair to look upon, because she was fair to look upon.
And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time,
that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window,
and saw him. Behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife.
And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of assurity she is thy wife.
And how saidst thou, She is my sister?
And Isaac said unto him, Because I said, lest I die for her.
And Abimelech said, What is this that thou has done unto us?
One of the people might lightly have lying with thine wife,
and thou shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us.
And Abimelech charged all his people, saying,
He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.
Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold,
and the Lord blessed him.
And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew,
until he became very great.
For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds,
and great store of servants, and the Philistines envied him.
For all the wells, which his father's servants had digged
in the days of Abraham his father,
the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth.
And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us,
for thou art much mightier than we.
And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent
in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.
And Isaac digged again in the wells of water,
which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father,
for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham.
And he called their names, after the names by which his father had called them.
And Isaac's servants digged in the valley,
and found there a well of springing water.
And the herdmen of Gerar did strive, with Isaac's herdmen,
saying, The water is ours.
And he called the name of the well Esic,
because they strove with him.
And they digged another well, and strove for that also.
And he called the name of it, Sitna.
And he removed from thence, and digged another well.
And for that they strove not.
And he called the name of it, Raobah.
And he said, For now the Lord had made room for us,
and we shall be fruitful in the land.
And he went up from thence to Beersheba.
And the Lord appeared unto him the same night,
and said, I am the God of Abraham my father.
Fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee,
and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake.
And he built an altar there, and called upon the name of the Lord,
and pitched his tent there.
And there Isaac's servants digged a well.
Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar,
and Azuath, one of his friends, and Phichol,
the chief captain of his army.
And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me,
seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?
And they said, We saw certainly that the Lord was with thee.
And we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us,
even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee,
that thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee.
And as we have done unto thee nothing but good,
and have sent thee away in peace, thou art now the blessed of the Lord.
And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.
And they rose up betimes in the morning,
and swear one to another.
And Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.
And it came to pass the same day,
that Isaac's servants came and told him concerning the well which they had digged,
and said unto him, We have found water, and he called it Sheba.
Therefore the name of the city is Beersheba unto this day.
And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith,
the daughter of Biri, the Hittite, and Bashamath,
the daughter of Elon the Hittite,
which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.
Brother Bill, will you pray for us?
Brother Ronald, thank you for the reading of the word.
Just show us the great things in this chapter.
Amen.
All right, well, before I begin,
I just want to say thank you to the ladies for that special music.
It was a really good job you did there.
I just want to say thank you to everybody for being here this morning,
and also for everybody that helped yesterday.
I've been without my help meet, so I'm only half the man I usually am,
so it's been a little rough for me.
My wife's been sick in bed for the whole weekend,
so usually she's here helping me and things like that,
so it's just been tough for her, but tough for me also,
and a lot of people stepped up and helped yesterday
and have been helping this whole weekend, so I just really appreciate that.
I just want to say thank you to our church family for all the help.
So this morning, my sermon title is God's Family, God's Church.
God's Family, God's Church.
Now, in Genesis chapter 26, we see the shining,
the main things that Isaac does as his works as the man of the house.
Abraham has died now.
He died in the last chapter.
He's been buried, and Isaac is now kind of the patriarch of the family at this point.
And in the last chapter also, Jacob and Esau have been born,
and so he's a father now.
He's married.
He had married Rebekah, and now he's kind of the man,
and this is the chapter where you see him do all his great works.
Of course, when he was a young lad, he was willing to sacrifice himself,
just like the Lord Jesus Christ was willing and did sacrifice himself,
and so Isaac pictures the Lord Jesus Christ in a lot of ways,
and of course, Abraham pictures God the Father in a lot of ways,
and he's the father of the faithful.
He's the father of many nations, and he has many sons.
You know, Father Abraham had many sons, right?
Many sons had Father Abraham, right?
The Sunday school song that some of us have sang.
And so we see that God works through families,
and it's funny that Brother Wayne was preaching that sermon the other night
because I was thinking, because God kind of laid it on my heart a little bit
to preach out of this chapter, and I was thinking,
I've already preached out of this chapter before.
Like, why am I wanting to preach out of this chapter?
And then Brother Wayne preaches that sermon about family,
and he brings up Abraham.
And so I was already planning on preaching out of this chapter,
and he drew some really great parallels.
And so this morning, that's what I want to do
is I want to draw some parallels about God's family and God's church
because you can get a lot of parallels from this chapter
of how we should be as families and how we should be as church families
because God works through families, and we see this in Genesis.
We see this in Noah's life.
I mean, how did he save the whole world?
By one father that was faithful and brought his whole family onto the ark,
and then the whole world was repopulated
because Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
Now, there's no perfect family.
There's no perfect family on the earth,
and of course, every family has dysfunction within its family.
I mean, Noah got drunk, and then one of his sons was wicked,
and one part of his family got cursed, and so on and so forth.
But in Genesis 12, you see where God starts to work through this man Abraham,
who is a great man.
And Abraham was so great that God blessed the whole world
through the things that he did because he obeyed God,
because he was a man of faith, he believed God,
and it was accounted to him for righteousness.
And so you see the faith of the world,
and I'm not saying that there was only faith in Abraham,
but God gives us Abraham as that example of the greatest faith
on the planet at that time.
And God still works through families today.
And secondly, the home is so important,
and without the home being important,
without the home and the church being in balance,
this world's a dark place,
and we see that throughout the whole Bible
where when the home is disrupted and the church is disrupted,
the kingdom's disrupted,
and then the whole world goes into chaos.
And there's a lot of dark things going on in our world right now,
and people are turning to the Catholic Church
and the Orthodox Church
because they like the stained glass windows
and the places where you can kneel and all this stuff.
But we as independent fundamental Baptists,
we need to realize that we need to turn many people to righteousness,
and we are few in number.
And so we have a very important job.
And one of those important things is that we have to make sure
that our families are right
and that we need to be in our church
and making a difference in this world.
So you have here the story of Abraham,
not Abraham, excuse me, Isaac.
And so in this chapter, again,
I just want to draw some parallels about family and church.
And of course it is our six-year anniversary,
but I just wanted to preach this sermon out of Genesis, Chapter 26.
My first point is building a successful family
and church requires us to follow what God says,
what He's prescribed for us to do.
Look at verse number one in our text there.
It says,
And there was a famine in the land
beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham.
Now, if you notice in the Bible also,
there's always some kind of famine.
Why is there a famine in the land?
Well, because the world is in darkness
and God punishes the world sometimes
because of the wickedness that there is
and He uses famines to do that.
And what is a famine?
It's where there's not enough food for everybody.
There's pestilence.
There's all kinds of things that God uses to judge the earth.
And sometimes He uses those things
to show His great power.
And we see,
so there was a famine in the land
when Abraham was there and who did he go to?
He went to Abimelech.
And what do we see Isaac doing here?
And it says Isaac went unto Abimelech,
king of the Philistines, unto Gerar.
Now Gerar is where Gaza is now.
So if you just type in Gerar into the map,
the Google Maps,
I'm sure, I don't know if they know exactly where it is,
but it pulled up on Google Maps.
I think that these Israelis,
they like to really,
they really want to pinpoint
where all the Old Testament stuff is that they like.
If it's up by Galilee,
they don't really care as much.
If it's places that Jesus
made a big impact,
they don't really care as much.
Or Samaria,
they don't like the Samaritans.
So that's where they let the Palestinians
still live there.
And of course they hate Gaza.
It says Isaac went to Abimelech,
the king of the Philistines.
So remember Abraham,
he pretended that
he wasn't married to Sarah
the same way Isaac does
in this chapter also.
And that just kind of goes to show that
in our family sometimes
when we see our parents do something,
you know, if children see their parents do something,
then the children are going to
sometimes do the same thing.
So we've got to be aware of how we portray ourselves
and the things that we do in our life.
Our children are going to emulate some of those things
and it was a mistake for Abraham to do that.
And it was a mistake
for Isaac to do this also.
But Isaac goes
to Abimelech,
what does Abimelech represent?
Well he represents the government, doesn't he?
If you want to spiritualize this,
he represents the government.
And we can't go to
the government to
make sure, you know,
we shouldn't go to the government and say,
hey, how should we be a family
in this world today?
Hey, what's the government think?
You should only have a certain amount of children.
You should, you know,
abortions are just fine.
You should put them in the government schools.
You know, let the government teach you.
It takes a village, like Hillary Clinton said.
You know, Isaac goes
to the government and, you know,
goes to them for help.
Because why? Because there's a famine in the land.
And as a family man,
we shouldn't necessarily go to the government
for help on how to raise our families, right?
It says in verse 2,
And the Lord appeared unto him and said,
Go not down into Egypt.
So what's the other thing
that Isaac shouldn't do?
Well, he shouldn't go down to Egypt.
What does Egypt represent?
It represents the world.
It represents worldliness.
It says, dwell in the land
which I shall tell thee of.
Now, the other thing we don't want to do
when we have a family
is go down into Egypt.
We don't want to raise our family
in a worldly setting.
As much as possible, we should
And so, you know, building a successful family
or church requires us
to not go to the government
and to not go into Egypt.
You know, if we want to build a great church,
do you think we should go to the government and say,
Hey, Mr. Government, how should we do this?
How should we set up our church?
How should we do all these things for our church?
Or, you know, go to the world and say,
Oh, how should we, you know,
how do you want the church?
What do you want the church to be like?
Sending out surveys like Rick Warren does
and say, well, you know, what are the things that you would like?
What could we do for you?
And it's like, hey, God already told us
what we should do for people.
We should go out and preach the gospel.
We should start churches.
We should have men appointed
and ordained to lead those churches.
So, just like,
you know,
just like this church started here,
we had a man that started this church.
And it was based upon what the Lord Jesus Christ
told us to do.
And who started the church?
Pastor Jimenez started the church,
and he put me in charge of the church.
And he found me faithful.
And he put me into the ministry.
He ordained me.
And so, we've been a church for six years,
but this church is older than six years old.
It started as Verity Baptist Church, Vancouver.
So, but, you know what
Pastor Jimenez didn't do?
He didn't go, oh, Mr. Government,
how should we do all the things?
How should we set up everything?
You know, one thing that we don't do
is we don't buy and sell at this church.
But what do a lot of churches do?
Oh, hey, how can I be
501C3 to the max
and buy and sell?
I understand people have set their churches up that way
and so on and so forth,
but we didn't set our church up that way because we don't sell anything.
So, we're not
the standard 501C3.
And people are like, well, you can't talk about politics
because you're 501C3.
I'll talk about whatever I want.
I'll talk about whatever I want to talk about.
And you're like, well, we'll take away your tax,
we'll take away your tax,
your ability to not have to pay taxes or whatever.
It's like, well, I'm not a
501C3. I didn't agree to anything like that.
So, yeah,
are we a charitable organization? Yes, we are.
But we don't sell things.
So, and I don't endorse candidates
anyway. As a matter of fact, I don't
endorse any of them. I think they're all pretty much wicked.
So, they're
spineless jellyfish
that just are bought and paid for
by the nation of Israel.
And not the good nation
of Israel.
So,
in reality, what we need to do
is we need to separate ourselves
from the government. You know, people always talk
about there being a church and state separation.
I do believe in that.
We should have a church and state separation.
But see, the libtards
take that to a whole other extreme and say,
you shouldn't even believe in religion if you're
a judge on the Supreme Court.
What? But you can be
every single weird thing
in the world. Every anti-
God, anti-Christ,
everything. And you can be on the
Supreme Court. You know, they say they
like diversity so much,
but that just means everything
but Christianity. You can
be everything but Christianity.
You can have everything but Christianity.
We're just not supposed to, the state
is not supposed to endorse one
particular denomination or religion
over the other. That's what that means.
It doesn't say people can't take office
that are Christians.
So, and there
is nothing really said about the separation
of church and state but a letter
from Thomas Jefferson. There's
nothing in the Bill of Rights that actually says that.
There's nothing in the Constitution that actually says
that. So, let's turn to Genesis
chapter 13. Genesis
chapter number 13.
But,
we should separate ourselves
from that. And, you know, we should
also separate ourselves
from other churches
or other believers
that are not of the same,
you know, they're not the
same as us. And, you're like,
well, what does that mean? Well,
they're going to separate themselves from us naturally
in a lot of different ways. There's a lot of
churches here. I have one pastor in this town that
talks to me. And you know why?
There's other independent Baptists
but they hate me. Why do they hate me?
Because they don't like what I preach.
They don't like what our church stands for
even though we believe in all
the essential doctrines. We believe in salvation
by faith alone. We believe in eternal security of the believer.
We believe in soul winning. We believe we're
King James only. We're all the things
that an independent Baptist should be
but we're different on our eschatology.
We're different on the
quote-unquote chosen people
and all these different things.
And also, we don't think fags can be saved or whatever.
It's like, oh, well, you're going to fight
us over that? Well,
let's look at Genesis 13
5. Abraham and Lot couldn't get along
but they were brethren. The Buddha says
and Lot also, which
went with Abram,
had flocks and herds and tents
and the land was not able to bear them that they might
dwell together for their substance was great
so that they could not dwell together.
And there was a strife
between the herdmen of Abram's
cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle and the
Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled there
in the land. So why is it telling us that? Because
God called Abraham to be
in a place where the heathen are.
Just like God calls his church
is to be
in the place where the heathen is.
He doesn't say go out in some compound someplace
or go out somewhere in the Alps
unless you're hiding from
people that want to kill you or whatever but he doesn't tell us
to start our churches in the middle of the desert somewhere
where nobody is. He wants us to start churches
where the heathen are there
they can observe us, we can reach them
but see how it
says and the Canaanite dwelled in the land.
Why is it telling us this?
Because when brethren
fight, when churches fight like this
the heathen see it
and it's not good. So look
what Abraham says or Abram
at this point. It says and Abram
said unto Lot let there be no strife
I pray that between me and thee
and between my herdmen and thy herdmen
for we be brethren.
Sometimes it's better to just walk away from people
that are brethren, they're brothers
in Christ but they're not
the same as we are.
Now this was a fight over cattle
and things like that but they are
two different types of Christians aren't they?
Abram was way different than Lot.
I mean we see how worldly
Lot became and what the end
of Lot was and a lot of it
was based upon his decision making.
Look at what it says in verse 9 it says
is not the whole land before thee
separate thyself I pray thee from me.
So Abraham's saying hey
separate yourself. And so we as Christians
also we need to learn
when it's time to separate ourselves also.
Sometimes people will separate themselves from us
in our families.
And it's not because we want that necessarily
it's because they want it.
They can't handle
what we have.
They can't handle the type of preaching that we
listen to. We'll be like hey listen to this preaching
and they're like no
I'm not listening to this preaching.
I don't want this preaching.
And so sometimes our family members even
turn against us.
And it's like sometimes spiritual blood
is thicker
than regular blood.
I mean blood is important.
Our blood relationships are important
but it's not more important
than our spiritual blood.
Our spiritual family
is super important.
And you see that because
people that are
related to us that
supposedly love us.
I mean I had a family member not too long ago he goes
I see that you're a preacher.
It's like I've loved this man my whole life.
And he's like I see that you're a preacher and he's
talking about Donald Trump or whatever and it's like
so he hasn't talked to me in years and the
first thing he mentioned he goes I doubt whether
you're even saved or whatever. I'm just like
and he's a Democrat
claims to be a Christian.
I'm just like
you haven't talked to me. I said I love you.
You know he deleted his comments or whatever.
I'm just like what's your problem?
But what his problem is
is he doesn't like what I believe.
That's what it is and so
someone that I've loved my whole life
and he's loved me supposedly
but when it comes to
the things about the Bible
that's where people will separate themselves from you isn't it?
And
spiritually
speaking he was not on the same
plane as Abraham. He was not
at all. So Abraham says
separate yourself from me. If that will take
the left hand I will go to the right.
If that will depart from the right hand I will go to the left.
And sometimes it's just best to let people
go away from you. We don't have to fight with
them. He says hey you go that way
I'll go this way. Whatever you choose to do.
And Lot lifted up his eyes
and beheld all the plane of Jordan
that it was well watered everywhere before the
Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah
even as the garden of the Lord
like the land of Egypt as thou
comest unto Zor.
So here we have this verse here
and it says like the
land of Egypt
and there's no mistake
that Sodom and Gomorrah are mentioned in the same
verse as Egypt
is here. God wants
us to stay away from Sodom and Gomorrah.
He wants us to stay
away from the land of Egypt.
But why did Lot
like it? Because it was like
the land of Egypt.
See he'd already seen Egypt
before. And he liked the way
it looked. It was
a really nice area.
And this is where all the liberals like to come. They want to come
and take over the left side
of the country because it's so beautiful here.
They like the trees. They like the
beauty. They like California.
I mean they hijack California.
California used to be a Republican state
for a long time.
It's beautiful there and they've ruined it.
With all their liberal
weirdness.
But they want to come
and destroy these
great places but
why did
Lot like it? It wasn't because it was the most
spiritual place to go. He liked it
because of what he could get out of it.
And a lot of Christians, that's what they
really want is they want to know what they can
get out of the church. But what we should
be thinking about is what
we can do for our church
instead of what we can get out of church.
There's a difference. Abraham
he
wanted to go wherever God
wanted him to go. He said go to the Canaanites.
He didn't say go to
Sodom. And what happened?
Then Lot chose him on the
plane of Jordan. Don't you think
Lot should have let Abraham the senior
choose where he wanted to go?
This is a lot
journeyed east and they separated themselves
the one from the other.
When you're an independent, fundamental,
fire-breathing, dragon-slaying Baptist
church, a lot of people want to separate
themselves from us too. And even though they're
brethren, they still will
there's going to be strife with our
herdmen. Their cowboys aren't going to get along with
our cowboys. Or
cowgirls or whatever.
And they're going to separate themselves from us.
And that's fine. And it says Abram dwelled
in the land of Canaan. Isn't that where God
told him to go? Yes.
Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain and pitched his
tent towards Sodom. So you see
Lot, where does he
go? He goes that direction, but then he's
pitching his tent towards Sodom.
And then the next time you see him, he's in the
gates of Sodom. And then the next time
he's got
all these fags that are
surrounding his house, and then as soon as
he judges them, then what happens?
Well, then they turn against him.
You can
be a friend of the world all you want, but
eventually, when you do
something they don't like, then they're
going to turn against you also.
It says in verse
13,
But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before
the Lord exceedingly.
Why are they exceedingly sinners?
Because they're faggots.
That's why. It's not a big mystery.
It's because they weren't hospitable.
Shut up.
Because they were idleness
of bread and all this.
The Bible tells us why.
Because they're homos. They're rapists.
They torture children. This is
why. It's what they always do.
Who saw the news about that
MrBeast, whatever, I mean
what a weird name to be called
anyway. The most famous YouTube channel
in the world. And then
he has this pervert on his channel.
Oh, big surprise,
big shocker, he's talking to
you know, he's trying to
groom these
children on the sly.
He's like, oh, I want to call for an investigation.
He sold his soul
to the Sodomite agenda a long time
ago. There's a reason
why YouTube promotes his stuff
higher than everybody else's.
Because he sold his soul a long time ago.
Look at verse 14,
and eastward and westward.
For all the land which thou seest to thee
while I give it to thy seed
forever. And who's that seed? That seed is
Christ. So Christ is the one
that inherits and He makes
all the earth blessed
because of what
you know, Abraham made this
you know, God moved through Abraham
this man of faith.
And so, the parallels of the church
and the family are here.
You know, Abraham was the one that was kind of like
a pastor, and he had all of his children
in line. It wasn't just
you know, Isaac was his promised son
just like Jesus Christ was the only
begotten son, but there's
many children of God, aren't there?
But there's only one
son that's begotten.
And that's so Isaac represents that
only begotten son, but Abraham
had many sons, didn't he?
Notice that the Bible never says
God has many grandsons.
Or great grandsons. And you know why
it is? It's because
every person has to
become a son
because you don't just automatically
become part of the family
because you're born into the
spiritual family by birth.
It's the second birth
that makes you part of God's family.
And you become a son of God
or a daughter of God the moment that you put your
faith in Jesus. John 1-12
I mean, that's what the Bible says.
With as many as received Him, to them
gave you power to become the sons of God even to them
that believe on His name.
It doesn't say, and you become a grandson
because you were born to someone that's
spiritually saved. So,
every single family has to make their choice
just like God goes to Isaac
after Abraham dies, and he says
you're, you know, he basically is telling him, you're the
leader now. And I'm going to do
through, if you follow me
like Abraham did, I'm going to bless you just like
that. And then Jacob, he goes to Jacob,
same thing. Then Jacob
becomes that man.
And why Jacob? Because Esau didn't want it.
Esau rejected it.
Esau didn't want, he wanted
the accolades of it, but he didn't want
the actual responsibility of it. He didn't care about it.
And then
of course, Joseph
is sought out by the Lord.
He's given the dreams. He's given the visions.
And the rest of his
brethren, you know, they had a hard time.
They were super dysfunctional.
Right? But
anyway, let's move on here.
So, separation
from the world leads to
separation from worldly or phony Christians
and shallow family.
So, our family separation
happens, but in church life we're supposed to have separation
too. So,
you know, don't run your home
like the land of Egypt.
Don't run your home like it's
Sodom, of course.
Nobody's going to do that, but
the Bible gives these parallels to us
and tells, you know, what did Lot choose?
He chose to look at
Sodom. He chose to go there
because it looked like Egypt.
And a lot of Christians are looking
unto Egypt today, and they don't
care to pitch their tent
towards Sodom. And they stick up
for these homos over Christian people,
which is really strange to me.
It makes me wonder, are you even saved?
But then we see people like Lot, we don't even know
the fact that he is saved until
the New Testament tells us he's a righteous man.
But what do we see that he does
that's even righteous in the whole Bible?
Just that his soul was vexed?
We know what his inner
thoughts were, we know what he felt,
but his actions
are different. They had to drag him out of Sodom.
His wife
turned into a pillar of salt
because she left her heart in San Francisco.
You know, he takes the liquor cabinet with
them into the cave.
He gets his daughters pregnant.
I mean,
he didn't end well.
But see, we don't want our families
to end up like Lot, and we don't want
our churches to end up like how
Lot ended up.
Or their drunk fests.
Or their fornication fests.
Where, you know, the
wives are, you know,
they're loving all their
children more than they're loving God.
They're loving some Sodomite instead of
loving God. We don't want our
church to love things that God hates.
Amen.
Look at Revelation chapter
number
11, verse 8.
Revelation chapter 11, verse 8, the Bible says,
And their dead bodies shall lie in
the streets of the great city. It's talking about the two
witnesses getting killed.
It says which spiritually
is called, what's it say there?
Sodom and Egypt.
Oh yeah, Israel's so great
they're the apple of God's eye, right?
Where also
our Lord was crucified. Where's that?
Jerusalem.
Oh, Jerusalem's so great it's the apple of God.
It's going to be when the Lord
Jesus Christ rules and reigns
from there. But right now it's called
Sodom and Egypt.
Look,
there's no accidents in the Bible.
When Lot says it's like the land of Egypt,
Sodom is like the land of Egypt, and then
you have Revelation, it's comparing
the same thing.
That's not accidental.
And so, look what these
people do. All the nations
of the world are in one unison
at this point. It says,
And they, of the people and
kindreds and tongues and nations,
shall see their dead bodies three
days and a half, and shall not
suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.
This is how
wicked the world becomes.
That they see two men of God killed
and
they don't even want them to be buried.
They hate them.
And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice
over them. I mean,
they're super happy that they got killed.
It's like all these weirdos
that make all these videos on TikTok
after the former president
almost gets assassinated, and they're like,
Oh, I wish they had finished a job.
They're doing all these cringe
trigger videos where they're like,
They're missed!
And they're just freaking out.
What a sick individual.
What a sicko.
To sit there
and get triggered because
someone didn't get murdered. And then you're
rejoicing over somebody
in the crowd that's just sitting there
gets shot.
That's sick. No matter what you believe,
whatever conspiracy about Trump and all
this,
he got shot in the ear.
It wasn't a piece of glass.
Again, whatever you think about it,
what we know as the official
story is that someone tried to
assassinate him. And then there's
like, Yeah, Trump fell because
he heard a loud noise.
That's the media
what they tell us.
Do you think that
people actually, I mean, people must be
mentally, seriously handicapped
like
by their
liberalism.
I'm not talking about
born that way. I'm talking about
this way because they've been spoon fed all this
weird media. They grew up in some
liberal school
in a liberal area
watching liberal news all these years
and now they're just like, they believe everything
they tell them. Like,
Kamala's actually black
and
Joe Biden is, he's the
best Joe Biden we've ever seen.
I mean, he's
got the mental acuity
of, it's Donald Trump's the one
that doesn't have it all together.
You know, mentally.
I mean, Trump can get up there
without a teleprompter and
give speeches for like an hour and a half.
Biden can't even get one sentence out right.
I mean,
and look at how they lied for years.
You know, people are always asking the question
is he fit to be president?
Here's what you really need to be asking yourself.
Who's actually really running the country?
Who's been actually running
our country this whole time? Because
it's not him.
I mean, these journalists get up and say
oh, he's just, you know, he's the best
he's ever been. And he gets up
and he's like, you know, like
this, like obviously pumped full of drugs
and giving these crazy speeches,
right?
But, I mean, I don't know why
I got off on that, but this is the type of people
that we're dealing with, folks, in these times
and it's going to get worse. And they that dwell upon
the earth shall rejoice over them
and make merry and shall send
gifts to one another. It's like Christmas time.
Like, ding dong, the
prophets are dead, the wicked prophets. I mean,
they're just like, they're singing
songs, they're rejoicing,
they're making merry, they're probably having
big drunken parties
because they're dead. Because these two
prophets tormented them that dwell on the earth.
This is how far
separated the earth
gets between
the people that are righteous
and the people that are wicked.
Now, I'm sure a lot of you people
have seen the
news
about
how the
Olympics had some big
crazy four hour pre-ceremony
or whatever, and
you can blame brother Joe for this, but
he sent me this article
and it really
ticked me off, actually.
But, you know,
Leonardo da Vinci painted
the Last Supper painting
and, of course, I don't believe Jesus
had long hair.
Leonardo da Vinci was probably a queer.
But,
what they did is they put
some fat transgender as
Jesus, woman,
and then a bunch of other queers
up next to him, drag queens,
some other queers
to make it look like the scene
from the Last Supper,
and paraded them and mocked
Christianity everywhere.
And it's disgusting.
And if you've heard of Harrison
Butker, he's the kicker from
the Kansas City Chiefs, who
like, he's so radical,
you know, he's a Catholic or whatever.
What he's been saying is not
radical, it's just
how women should stay home and
even lied to with the feminist agenda.
It's not like he's just, he's like
Pastor Anderson just getting up and ripping these
crazy sermons.
This is why they throttle us down.
Because if people heard what we had to say
about it, they would lose their
minds. But they don't want
the truth to get out about,
you know, they'll give us a very
small slice of the
weakest take ever
and act like that's the most extreme.
Why are they doing that? Because
when people actually hear the most extreme
then they'll be like,
full tilt, this is crazy,
we need to lock these people up, type of stuff.
But he just made
a caption on Twitter
and said,
he just quoted the Bible, God is not mocked.
You know, whatsoever man so
that shall he also reap, and he like, put a picture
of these freaks or whatever.
And, you know, he got in trouble
basically by his whole team,
by the NFL, for basically,
not for this, but people
are freaking out, it went viral or whatever, just because
he said, God is not mocked
over transgenders pretending
to be Jesus and the apostles
or whatever at an Olympic
ceremony. What does that have to do
with sports? What does that have to do
with the Olympics? I mean, there was all kinds of
weird stuff that they did. You know,
some Marie Antoinette
with its head cut off, singing
music or whatever.
I mean, they have these
trans athletes or whatever,
carrying the torches, Snoop Dogg wearing a
Baphomet necklace. I mean,
it's almost just like they just do this just to
openly mock Christians.
And they do.
Celine Dion's got stiff person disorder,
I've never even heard of that before. Well, hopefully
she just is permanently stiff at some
point really soon. I know she's
Canadian or something, but
she's wicked.
And then Taylor Swift
is mocking this Catholic
guy who just said, hey, you know, I'm glad my
wife stays at home and
it's good for women to stay at home. She's mocking
him and making fun of him.
You know what, Taylor Swift is a whore.
And I don't care if that
hair lips every single person in the world, I don't care
if it hair lips anybody in our congregation, she
is a stupid feminist whore.
And you should not listen to her music.
So,
this guy,
Harrison Butker,
he made controversial
remarks at a Catholic
college. I mean, he's given a speech
at a Catholic college. The only reason why this is even in the
news is because he's an NFL
player. I mean, I
guarantee you, he's going to find a way
to be cut from his team.
And it's just like people, his jerseys just
sell off the shelves now and
all this other stuff. I'm not going to buy one of his jerseys.
First of all, I hate the Kansas City Chiefs.
Yeah, cold day in hell
before I wore one of their jerseys.
But,
I mean,
yeah, so
here's what he said
that was so controversial.
Let's see.
How many of you
are sitting here now about to cross the stage
and think about all the promotions
and titles you're going to get in your career?
He said, some of you may go on
to lead successful careers in the world, but I would venture
to guess that the majority of you are
most excited about your marriage and children
you will bring into the world. Ooh, it's
so controversial at a Catholic college to
say that. Referring to his wife,
Isabel, the three-time Super Bowl
champion added, I'm beyond blessed
with many talents God has given me, but
it cannot be overstated that
all my success is made possible
because a girl I met in band class
back in middle school would convert to the
faith and become my wife and embrace
one of the most important titles of all,
homemaker. I mean,
that's controversial?
How's that controversial?
Well, it's controversial because the world we live in,
you know, and the Taylor
Swift's of this world, who goes
on and shows her thighs in every single
concert she's in.
I mean, I don't think that she wears
any kind of, I mean, she doesn't
wear dresses unless, you know,
they are short-cut or whatever.
But, you know,
she just wants to go and show her nakedness to everybody
and then people are like,
well, her songs aren't bad.
Well, she's always talking about every
single guy that's dumped her because
she, you know, she's a feminist.
Who wants to be dating a feminist?
I don't care how popular she is.
Oh, maybe, you know, Travis
Kelsey, the king of COVID
or whatever, the COVID shot captain,
you know, he wants to date her.
He wants to be
with her, but, you know, who
wants to be with her besides some
some queerbait, you
know, COVID master
that wants to just get everybody
vaccinated or something.
Nobody cares.
You know, they have to, they can't show
this is another, I've already hated Kansas City
football before I, before
this all happened, but
I can't stand
every time that, if you're watching a Kansas City
game, that they have
to, everything that happens, they have to pan
to Taylor Swift and her satanic whore
friends that are sitting next to her.
It's like, who cares?
The NFL's just pandering to the Swifties.
If you're a man and you call yourself
a Swiftie, you need to grow some hair
on your legs and maybe take some
testosterone and do some push-ups or something
because you're a queerbait.
I'm a Swiftie.
You're a queerbait.
If you're going to listen to worldly music, at least
listen to something that's not
Taylor Swift.
Anyway, I'm
People are denouncing
what's been going on in the
Olympics, and look,
it's just an example of how
wicked our world is. We can't just have the
Olympics with, you know, they said they want to be
inclusive. This is what they said.
Well, we just were trying to be inclusive. Where's the
Christian part of it then?
If you're so inclusive, you know,
well, that was Christian. It's the transgenders
at the Last Supper.
Now they're apologizing because people are pissed
off about it because they just, sometimes
they just go so far, they're like, oh, maybe we should
not have done this. It's like the San Francisco
choir, you know,
saying, hey, we're coming, we're here, we're caring, we're
coming for your children and all this. They're singing
songs about how they're coming for our kids
and then people get, they freak out. They're like, oh, we were just
joking.
They're not joking.
They are coming for our children. We should stay far
away from Egypt, far away from
Sodom.
And Jesus said
that he came not to bring peace
but a sword.
He came to divide. People are like, well, we should
just all come together with Jesus
and be ecumenical.
That's not what the Bible says.
He said, I came not to send to bring peace
but a sword.
And, you know, some people will choose, well,
I don't know if I could serve in a church like this
because you're making me choose things
that I don't want to choose. Turn to Matthew chapter 10.
Matthew chapter 10.
You're like, this isn't a very good anniversary sermon.
Sorry.
Matthew chapter 10, verse 34.
The Bible says, think not that I'm
come to send peace on earth. I came
not to send peace but a sword.
For I am come
to set a man at variance against his father
and the daughter against her mother
and the daughter in law against her mother in law
and a man's foes shall be they
of his own household.
He that loveth father or mother
more than me is not worthy of me.
And he that loveth son or daughter more than
me is not worthy of me.
How many times have people been put
to the decision, well, hey, if you're going to still go to that
church then I don't want to have anything to do with you.
It's countless.
It's countless. And that's why Jesus says this.
And it's like, hey, who are you going to
choose? Are you going to choose your savior?
Are you going to choose your god?
Or are you going to choose the children that don't want to have anything
to do with your god? Or are you going to choose
your parents who don't want to have
anything to do with your god?
I mean, he says you're not worthy of me
if you choose them. If you love them more
than me then you're not worthy.
He that taketh them on his cross and fell
after me is not worthy of me.
He that findeth his life shall lose it and he that
loses his life for my sake
shall find it.
And so we're supposed to
serve God with our life
and as church members. We're supposed to
serve our church and our fellow
brethren in the church
and our main thing
in our lives should revolve around
God. God is the most important.
But you know, family is important
too. Our children are important.
Our wives are important.
Your husbands are important,
spouse.
This whole thing will not run without
the family and the church being
lock and step. And yes, again
there's
dysfunction. You know, some families
put the fun in dysfunction.
My family
puts the fun in dysfunction. Not my immediate
family, but my other family.
I don't have a bunch of saved people in my family.
Man, that'd be great to have
like Brother Wayne was talking about the other day
a legacy of all these different Baptists.
Well maybe in time that
can be the case.
But that isn't the case now.
The Baptists start here with
me and my wife
and my children
and hopefully my children's children.
But we
need to run our homes and our churches
not like the government wants.
Not like the world wants.
You know, a lot is set at the gate
with the queers.
But we need to be away from them.
We need to be away from Sodom. We don't need to
be this church is just
everybody's welcome.
You're just saying all the fags are welcome.
That's what you're saying.
Every church that puts that on
everyone welcome
you might as well just say all fags are
welcome here. And that's never going to be on our
side of our door.
And our government, what do they do?
They promote
faggotry. They promote
the world.
They promote the
political agenda of the United
States behind the pulpits.
That's what they want. They want us to
be a mouthpiece and a talking
head. Donald Trump said, hey if
the Christians don't vote
then we're not going to win this thing.
He's pandering to Christians
after he said that he's for
the abortion pill.
I'm not going to vote for a president that says that.
You're out of your mind.
You're out of your mind. I'm not going to vote for him.
Why would I vote for him? My vote doesn't even count
in this state.
What is the point?
Oh, my vote's going to count. My vote
doesn't count. No, it doesn't
count in Washington. It's not going to
turn the tide.
You know, in Oregon, it's not going to turn the
tide either if you live in Oregon. Sorry.
But all the weirdos over there, just like they
vote for all the freaks in city council
and the freaky mayors. I mean
the first transgender mayor
was in Oregon.
California, Gavin Newsom,
Newscom, the
American Psycho is the governor there.
Gay Inslee is our governor
in Washington. You think now that
he's going to be gone, you think we're going to
get a better one, it's probably going to be worse.
Kate
Brown, what do we have worse?
I don't know if she's worse, but
she's equally bad. She's LMO too.
It's not going to get better by us voting.
You know what's going to get better?
This world's going to get better because of
strong families and strong churches.
Bill Hybels was a
famous pastor
that built this
huge church that had
a weekly attendance of 24,000 people.
And then in 2018,
he got caught in this scandal
where he had been, you know,
messing around
with women since the church started
basically. And then he had to resign.
He stepped down after
all these years.
But what was his plan?
What made his church so popular?
Well, we could try
to make it relevant to our day.
Isn't this the push that we
see now? Isn't this
what everybody wants to do, have the
purple lights and the smoke machines
and, you know, the
coffee stands and the Starbucks in the
back of the, you know, Starbucks
has no, we can bring, yeah, bring your Starbucks
here, but don't bring that
whore picture
and an actual
coffee stand of Starbucks into our church.
That's never happening.
We're not going to sell Starbucks in the back of our church.
But these types of pastors
like Rick Warren, you know, they
literally do send out surveys
and they say, what kind of music would you like?
And so, they
go out and ask, what do you want?
And then they provide whatever
church, you know, whatever that area is
into, then the church says,
well, I guess this is the kind of music that we're going to give them.
This is the kind of preaching we're going to give them.
And that became very popular.
The purpose-driven church
and relevant preaching
and relevant, you know,
to our day
and all this other stuff.
Relevant services, relevant
sermons. Yeah, I mean
modernism, liberalism.
That's what that is.
And yeah, go ahead and run
24,000, but what are they doing?
They're not getting people to say it because they don't even have the right gospel.
They can say
that they're evangelizing everybody
all they want, but they're not really doing it.
So, we've got to do
things the way God says to do it. Look at
back in our text in Genesis chapter 26, verse 3.
The Bible says,
sojourn in this land
and I will be with thee
and will bless thee.
This is what God says
for us to do.
He's just saying to do something simple.
Just sojourn in this land.
This is where I want you, Isaac.
I don't want you running off to Egypt.
If I want you to go to Egypt,
I'll tell you to go to Egypt.
But I just want you to
stay in this land. This is where I want you.
And he says, for unto thee
and unto thy seed I will give
all these countries and perform the oath that I swear
unto Abraham my father.
You know, men are so worried about their legacies
and their posterity, and you know, what
in the world I'm saying,
this is what people are so concerned about. What is my
legacy going to be? We should be concerned
about leaving a godly
heritage for the next generations.
That's what we should be concerned about.
Leaving, you know, a godly church
for the next generation to go to.
You know, and training
godly leaders for the next
generation to take over.
Look at Genesis 18, 18.
Genesis 18, 18.
The Bible says, you know, and this is why
I mean, this is, I think, one of the reasons
why God picked Abraham.
It says, seeing that Abraham shall
surely become a great and mighty
nation, and all the
nations of the earth shall be blessed
in him, for I know
him that he will command
his children and his household
after him, and they
shall keep the way of the Lord.
So, you know, we have these two
great statements about
Abraham from God.
I know he will command his children
and his household after him.
He didn't just have children, he had
people that worked for him.
He had trained servants.
He goes out in Genesis chapter
14 with his trained servants, him
leading these trained servants
and takes back and
kills a bunch of kings.
This is how base Abraham
is. Abraham's just
like, come on boys, let's go.
And kills all these kings.
And then
frees Lot, because Lot's
captured with them, of course.
And God's
like, should I keep this thing from
Abraham? He's like, no.
He's going to command his children, he's going to
keep the ways of the Lord.
So where was faith in his family?
In his household?
And he was keeping the ways of the Lord.
What is that? The spiritual side
of things. And this is why it's so important
that our families have this
aspect to them and that our church
has this aspect to it.
And that these things are mutually,
they're mutually, you know,
it's a symbiotic relationship. We have to have
great families and
in our great church.
We have to operate our families
exactly how we operate our church.
Keeping the ways of the Lord.
And commanding our children
and our household after them.
And look, it's true. Isaac
became a great leader. Then Jacob
and then he had his sons
follow after him. Of course,
you know, things got bad later, but
God preserved his
line through these men for a reason.
And it started with Abraham.
Well, I'll just go ahead and turn to Psalm
127 verse 3.
Psalm 127 verse 3. The Bible says
in Psalm 16, 6 it says
the lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places
yea, I have a goodly
heritage. This is
talking about, you know,
Isaac and David has a goodly heritage.
He had family of faith
to
look back upon.
You know, his father, and he had
Boaz, and he had Ruth,
and, you know, he had
multiple family members that,
and even after him, had a great
amount of people
that were faithful in
his family.
Look at Psalm 127 verse 3. The Bible says,
lo, children are in heritage of the Lord.
And the fruit of the womb is his
reward. And when we have
children, physical children,
and those children get
saved, that's the Lord's reward.
God wants us to
have children. He wants us to have families.
He wants us to have as many children as we can
and for those children to get saved.
That is the heritage of the Lord. Not just to have children,
just to have children, because if they don't get
saved, what's the point?
The heritage of the Lord is that these children
would get saved.
Look at verse 1.
It's funny how these two
concepts are, you know, we use
verse 1 to talk about the
church. But verse 3
is talking about the family, isn't it?
But they're both mutually exclusive,
they're not both mutually exclusive, they're
a combination, right? Look at verse 1.
It says, except the Lord
build the house, they labor
in vain that build it.
You can try to build a great family
without God all you want,
but it's in vain. Because that family
is going to crumble at some point.
Except the Lord keep the city, the watchman
waketh but in vain.
Look, God is the one that builds
great families and we have to base
our marriages, the way we
raise our children, and
everything, every decision in our home
based upon the Lord.
And God will build our family.
You know, and when
we base everything the way God
wants it in our church,
God's going to build the church.
It's God's responsibility. It's not my responsibility
to build this church. It's not your responsibility
to build this church. But does
soul wanting build our church?
No, but we
love God, we go soul wanting, we do
what He asks, and we try to implement
things in this church to the best of our
abilities and God blesses
that and He says, you know what? I want to
build this church. I'm going to build
this church because of what they're doing. It's
pleasing to me. And it's
His responsibility to do it. It's not my responsibility.
I get up here, I just preach the
Word of God and try
to lead our people the best I can
and it's up to God to build it.
It's vanity for me to try
to build this church. I'll do
my best to help.
You know, we're co-laborers
with God in His vineyard
but at the end of the day,
it's God's responsibility to build it and
you know what? You can do your
best to build your family also
but ultimately, if it's not
built upon the Lord, you know,
everything that's not built upon the Lord
is going to crumble. So it's
so important that our church
and our family is built upon the Lord.
So, Matthew 16-18
which is our verse of the week
it says, and I say also unto
thee, thou art Peter, and
upon this rock I will build my
church and the gates of hell
will not prevail against it.
Jesus says,
I will build my church.
Does this say
Peter is going to build my church?
No, it says upon this rock I will build my church
and the gates of hell shall not
prevail against it.
The forces of hell are coming for this church.
They have already come for this
church. They've tried.
But guess what? We're still here baby.
Six years later,
we're still here.
Eight years later, we're still here.
How many people have promised to destroy our church?
How many phone calls I've fielded saying,
you're done. I'm coming for you.
This is over.
All those freaks last year
with machine guns outside of our church,
we're still here.
We're still standing.
It's because we're standing upon the rock.
That's why.
And so, if we do things
after the success of churches
before us, look, we're not just starting
something new here.
You think that we're the first church that ever
started sermons or went
soloing? Of course not.
Just like, God didn't expect
He didn't expect Isaac to start
something new. He said, do things like your
father Abraham did. I'm going to bless you
because you're doing things like Abraham
did. If you do those things,
then I'll bless you also.
And when we do, like if
your parents or godly parents
do likewise, and hey, if they didn't do everything
right, we'll fix the things that they did wrong
and implement that in your family.
And instill those things in your children.
Are you having your children pray?
Are you praying for your food with
your children? Are you having a nightly
prayer time with your children?
Are you reading the Bible with your children?
You know, because the Bible puts
a big emphasis on us
teaching our own children.
Not letting the
government do that for us.
And not letting Sodom do that
for us.
First Chronicles
15, 13 says,
Because you did it not at first, the Lord our
God made a breach upon us
for that we sought him not after
the due order. God wants us to
come to him the way he wants
it, not the way we want it.
This isn't Burger King Baptist
have it your way. This isn't
buffet Christianity where you get
to pick and choose the way you want everything.
God says, hey, you know, David,
his friend
Uriah, was
killed.
Why? Because he touched the ark.
Because they weren't pulling it
the right way. The Levites were supposed to be
bearing it upon their shoulders, and they
weren't doing it right. He's like, oh, it's a lot
easier to just let the ark, you know, let a
cart do it.
And the reason why he died
is because God's like, no, you're
going to do it the way I said.
Or a breach is going to be upon you.
So, same way we should run our families
and our homes. Go ahead and turn to
Jeremiah 6 16.
We don't need to pave a new way.
But you know what, just like I said,
if your parents are godly
parents, they've done the best they could
with you, they're not perfect. No parents
are perfect.
No church
is perfect.
But,
fix
that which is broken,
that's
kind of what the new IFB is about.
The things that we
didn't like about the old IFB are
altar calls,
no soul winning,
letting any
Bible version in, pretty much,
different types of salvation,
dispensationalism,
worshiping Israel, pre-trip
rapture, what's some others?
Oh yeah,
not family integrated, just
take dragging everybody's kids
off to Sunday school,
what else, anybody?
Yeah, they don't believe the reprobate doctrine,
loading fags in,
loading flags in.
What else?
Selling, buying, selling.
I mean there's just so much stuff
that we wanted to get rid of,
but it's not like the old IFB did everything wrong.
They did a lot of things right.
But it's not like we just
scrapped and said we're not Baptists anymore.
Well we're still Baptists,
but we just got rid of the stuff that
we trimmed the fan.
Are we perfect though?
I'm sure that we have blind spots
that people don't like
or whatever, but we need to fix those
as we find those things also.
We're not perfect, we haven't arrived.
Look at Jeremiah 6 16 though.
It says, Thus saith the Lord, stand ye in the ways,
and see and ask for the old pass,
where is the good way,
and walk therein.
The new IFB
is really just walking in the old pass.
That's what we want to do.
It says, And ye shall find rest
for your souls.
But you know when we won't find rest?
Well we're not walking in the old path.
We're not walking
in the right way.
Look back at our text in Genesis chapter 26
verse number 4, the Bible says,
And I will make thy seed to multiply
as the stars of heaven.
Why? Because
you're just doing what I said.
God just expects us to do what He says
and then He's going to bless us
and take care of us
and He's going to get us through the hard times.
And I will give unto
thy seed all these countries
and in thy seed shall all
the nations of the earth be blessed.
Because that Abraham obeyed my voice
and kept my charge, my commandments,
my statutes,
and my laws.
The interesting thing about Isaac also,
he only had one wife.
Another way he pictures the Lord Jesus Christ.
Because you know,
Jesus Christ is the bride of Christ.
He just has one bride.
And
so it says,
and he kept my charge.
He kept my commandments, my statutes, my laws.
So, now then it says,
Isaac dwelt in Gerar. So he did what God says.
Where did God want him?
In Gerar.
And the men of the place asked him about his wife
and he said, she's my sister.
Just say, she is my wife
lest said he,
the men of the place should kill me for Rebecca
because she was fair to look upon.
And it came to pass that when he
had been there for a long time that Abimelech
the king of the Philistines looked out the window
and saw and behold Isaac was sporting with Rebecca
his wife and Abimelech called Isaac
and said, behold of a surety
she is thy wife
and how sayest thou, she is my sister
and Isaac said unto him, because I said
lest I die for her.
Now, it's really interesting that
here he doesn't picture
the Lord Jesus Christ.
Because what did Jesus do?
He died for his bride.
He died for the church.
Look at Ephesians 5 verse 25.
Ephesians 5 verse 25.
Did the pizza already get here?
Can you smell it?
Close that door.
I can't smell anything.
I must have COVID.
Ephesians 5 verse 25.
The Bible says, husbands love your wives
even as Christ also
loved the church and gave
himself for it.
The difference between Isaac and Jesus
is that Jesus gave himself for his wife.
He gave himself for his bride.
Isaac was like, I don't want to die
for her.
And he probably was afraid.
This is the law of the land.
This is the king.
He can pretty much do what he wants.
But, you know,
just like with
Abraham before him,
God was going to kill
Abimelech. This is a different Abimelech.
Abimelech just means he's like the king of the Philistines.
So, obviously a different Abimelech.
But Abimelech was going to die.
God says,
you touch her,
you're a dead man.
And he was dead serious.
So,
same situation here.
But Isaac, he's not willing to do it.
But, see, the Lord Jesus Christ was.
And he's willing to die
for the church.
It says that he might sanctify and cleanse with the
washing of the water by the
word. That he might present it to himself a
glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle
or any such thing.
That it should be holy and without blemish.
So ought men to love their wives
as their own bodies. He that loveth
his wife, loveth himself.
For no man ever yet hated his own flesh
but nourisheth and cherisheth
it, even as the Lord the Church.
We should not be
ashamed and hide
what church we go to
just like you shouldn't hide
who your wife is.
You don't want to hide who your wife is.
Like, this is my wife.
That's weird.
Isaac's hiding who his wife is because he's afraid.
But, you know, if you think
about it in a spiritual concept,
you know, Christ isn't ashamed
to call us brethren. Christ
calls us brethren. He's not ashamed
of us
even though we do
shameful things. But he's not ashamed of us.
We shouldn't be ashamed
of his church. We shouldn't be ashamed
of his men. We shouldn't be
ashamed of each other.
You know, when someone says, what church do you go to?
I shouldn't be ashamed of my church.
Why?
Why should you be ashamed?
Are we teaching something wrong?
We shouldn't be ashamed
at all. The Lord isn't ashamed
of us and
we shouldn't be ashamed of him either.
So, back
to our chapter here. It says in verse
10, it says in Abimelech said,
What is this that thou hast done to us?
One of the people might have lightly lined with thy wife,
thou shouldest have brought guilt in this upon
him. So, now,
look at verse 12. The Bible says,
Then Isaac sowed in the land.
So, after all this, he
sows in the land. And it says,
And received the same ear in hundredfold,
and the Lord blessed him. What does that
remind you of?
Well, let me
read further here. It says, And the man waxed
great, and went forward, and grew till he
became very great. And he had possessions
of flocks, and possessions of herds, and great
store of servants, and the Philistines envied
him. Now, look at Matthew 13
really quickly.
Matthew 13, while you're turning
there, I'm going to read Psalm chapter 1,
verse 1. The Bible says in Psalm 1,
Blessed is the man that walketh not
in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth
in the way of the sinners, nor
sitteth in the sea of the scornful.
But his delight is in the law of the Lord,
and in his law doth he meditate day
and night. And he shall be
like a tree planted by the rivers of waters
that bringeth forth his
fruit in his season. His
leaf also shall not wither,
and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
Look, where we're following the ways
of the Lord, where we're meditating on
God's word day and night, he's
going to bless us greatly. In Genesis
24, verse 63,
the Bible says, And Isaac went out to
meditate in the field at eventide.
That's not an accidental statement
that's in there. And what happens? His
wife comes rolling up next on
the camels. Love at first sight.
They get married. He's comforted
over the death of his mother. And then,
you know, so Isaac's blessed.
And there's no, there's
no doubt that when he went
out to meditate in the field, obviously he
didn't have necessarily the written word of God.
But what is he doing? He's meditating
on the things of God. So Matthew
13, 3 says, And he
spake many things into them in parables,
saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow.
What did Isaac do? He sowed
in that land where God told him
to go. Remember, he said, You will go
to this land. Just, that's what I
want you to do. And it says, And receive the
same year a hundredfold, and the Lord
blessed them. Now it says in the
parable that you're at, Behold, a sower went
forth to sow, and he sowed some,
some seeds fell by the
wayside, and the fowls came
and devoured them up. Some fell
by the stony places, where they had not
much earth, and forthwith they sprung up
because they had no deepness of earth.
And when the sun was up, they were
scorched. And because they had no root,
they withered away. And some
fell among thorns, and the thorns
sprung up and choked them. But
other fell into good ground
and brought forth
fruit. Some a hundredfold,
some sixtyfold,
and some thirtyfold.
There's no doubt that this
is a parallel to what Isaac is doing
in the land. Isaac
sowed in the land and received the same year
a hundredfold. So, he's doing the max,
so that's the max right there.
Hundredfold. So, what is this
talking about? Well, I believe it's referring
to sowing. It's sowing in the land.
We're supposed to sow the seed
of the word of God. And what does the seed
of the word of God do? Well, it gets people
saved.
Through the Holy Spirit of God,
the word preached, and some
people get saved. Some people
don't. Some people become
right after they hear our gospel presentation. Some
people, you know, it takes some time,
but it germinates. Some people
get saved and they don't follow God. But some people,
you know, they get saved, they
get plugged into church, you know, they get baptized,
and they become sowners
themselves. And
Isaac, here,
is doing maximum damage.
So, if you go sowing a lot,
you can get a lot of people
saved. And if you go to
really receptive places, you can probably get more
than a hundredfold. But it's giving
you an example of, if you're just regularly
going out sowing, you're
going to get people saved, and you're
like, well, not here, Pastor Thompson. Well,
that's why we have different opportunities for you to go
to different places. And
in the Old Testament, it says, any
place we put the sole of our foot
will be yours. Talking about
in the Promised Land. But Jesus
says, go into all the world
and preach the gospel.
Every place in the world is ours.
Really.
This is our world. This is
the Lord Jesus Christ world. Yeah, there's borders,
there's different countries that don't want us there, and they'll
kill us for going there. But any
place we go, we can
sow that spiritual seed in the land.
And the other thing that Isaac
liked to do, is he liked to
dig wells. You notice a lot of these
wells get dug, or
digged, or dug, or whatever you want to say.
All these wells keep getting dug.
Look at verse 15.
Dig dug.
But
as families, we need to take our children
out sowing together. It
shouldn't just be the husband by himself, or the wife.
You know, and I know that there's different times, and different
seasons, and breastfeeding, and
pregnancy, and all this stuff. But there
should be times when we should
have our children with us.
There should be a thing that our church does.
And it says,
verse 15,
For all the wells which his father
servants had digged in the days
of Abraham his father, the Philistines had
stopped them and filled them with earth.
Look, this is what the world wants to do.
They want to fill in
the wells.
Abraham dug the well.
And if you think about it in a church
setting,
think about Jack Hiles
dug a giant
spiritual well in Hammond, Indiana.
And the Philistines
want to fill that in. The Philistines
want to destroy that, and
make it unfruitful.
They want to make it where people can't drink out of that
well anymore. So if you think of
different churches, different areas where
a lot of great spiritual things
are going on, the Philistines are always going to
try to battle with us.
And this is, you know, Isaac battles with the Philistines
basically through the rest of this, but
he just kind of leaves those places. He digs it well.
But, you know, we do this too.
We go all over the world.
We go all over this country. We can go
any place, and
we just say, hey, we're going to go soloing here.
We're going to have a church service here, and people
show up and go. And people show up
and we get people saved.
Because we can go anywhere in the world
and people are going to show up.
People are going to get saved. People are going to go soloing.
And people want to hear the
Word of God preached.
And maybe that well only stays open for a little
while, and the Philistines
are going to fill it up, but some places
stay, and God protects that
place. Look at what it says
in verse
16. And Abimelech
said unto Isaac, go from us
that thou art much mightier than we.
And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the
valley of Gerar, and dwelt there. And Isaac
digged again the wells of water.
See, Isaac's persistent.
He doesn't just say, oh, they filled it in. I'm done.
I'm quitting. I'm going to quit
church planting. I'm going to quit going soloing.
I didn't get anybody saved in this city or whatever.
No, he just says, I'm going to dig again.
And this is what we have to be
persistent as a church.
Hey, some churches aren't going to work out.
Some places aren't going to work out. But you know what?
We just got to keep digging wells.
We got to keep sowing the seed. And you know what?
Seed takes water.
So we got to sow the seed. We got to dig the
wells just like Isaac did.
Which they had digged in the days
of Abraham his father, and the Philistines had
stopped them after the death of Abraham.
And he called their names after the names
by which his father had
called them. Like Baptist.
You know, I'm not saying Abraham
was Baptist. I'm just saying that
you know, Jack House
was Baptist though.
There's other church, you know,
Frank Norris.
His church that he built there,
it's run by some
BLM people or whatever.
The church actually, the people move
to different places.
But, I'm still
Baptist. I would still
identify with a lot of things that Frank Norris
taught. J. Frank Norris.
But look, people are going to fill the
wells in, but we need to dig those wells back up.
That's why we went back to Detroit.
That's why we've gone to Chicago.
That's why we go to all these places.
Yeah, the wells are getting filled up, but we've got to dig them back up again.
And call them after the name
that our father Abraham called them.
Whatever, whatever Baptist Church.
Haters are always going to
try to stop us.
They're always going to try and make us fail.
But in the long run, we're going to succeed.
And they're not going to stop us.
Because we need to be persistent.
It says,
And Isaac's servants digged in the valley
and found there a well of springing water.
They didn't stop.
They're going to find that spring.
And there's no doubt there's a parallel
to the springing water
springing up into everlasting life
that Jesus talks about
in John chapter 4.
So, we're talking about tapping into this
Holy Spirit. We're talking about
the Word of God affecting people
and getting them saved.
And whenever we do great things,
there's going to be adversity.
Andrew Drew got a Jamaican lady saved yesterday.
Brother Alex was telling me yesterday
that the door right before that,
this guy,
they're about to walk up his driveway,
and there's like a no soliciting sign.
He was like, Can't you guys read?
And he's just like out there yelling at them and railing on them.
And so they go to the next door
and the guy's just like looking
out the door or whatever.
He's just so mad.
Why is that adversity happening?
Because the devil knows what's
going to happen at the next door.
That's why. He wants to discourage us
while we're out sewing. He wants to stop
our mouths. He wants
these freaks. He enacts these
reprobates
to challenge us and to stop
us from getting people saved.
And they just kind of
turn on or reprobate
whatever they're going to do
to try to get us to stop people getting saved.
And so, this lady
came all the way from Jamaica,
and Dr. Drew went over there
and got her saved. Praise God.
You know, if we got one person saved
yesterday, praise God.
But it wasn't without adversity.
And that guy was probably smoking mad
and hopefully the devil killed him
for it. Because he didn't succeed
in his mission. Those people
are children of the devil, folks.
In most cases. I mean, obviously
Paul wasn't a devil, but
most people are doing stuff like that.
You know, if they're foaming at the mouth like that, there's something
wrong with them. So,
now,
the Bible says if our ways please him,
that he'll make
even our enemies
to get along with us, right?
So, I know I've got to close
this sermon, and you guys are hungry,
and you already smell the food. So,
we just need to keep
digging, and we're going to find water.
Look at verse 32.
It says,
and it came to pass the same day.
The Philistines come and make friendly with Isaac.
Not after, they keep fighting with
him, and Isaac keeps going and setting up more
wells and things like that, but
eventually,
you know, there comes
this place where they stop, they leave him
alone, they quit fighting with him.
And, you know, we get to that place too. God's not
always just going to, not everything's going to
always be a fight. But,
you know, there's another fight around the corner, folks.
And that's just the way it is.
Look at verse 32, it says,
So, and beer means
well, and sheba
means oath.
So, you know, Isaac,
you know, he told God that he was going to
do what he said.
They made that oath with
Philistines. They said, we're not going to
fight with you, you're not going to fight with us.
They made friends with them.
And we should agree with our adversaries too.
When they're going to make friendly with us,
we should make friends with them.
As long as they're not God haters,
then we should try our best to get
along with everybody. That's what the Bible teaches.
And, you know, the last thing
is that
there's a reality of
making a wrong decision. When we
quit, when we quit leading our family right.
So, look at the last two verses here.
It says,
What's the problem here?
Well, they're not supposed to marry Hittites, that's what the problem is.
And it
says,
See, the
family line didn't go much further because of this.
And there was
some people in Esau's family
that did end up getting saved, and that
were saved after this, but
the problem is that
Esau's not following
what the family
values are of Jacob.
Like,
Jacob was chosen, you know, mainly
because he did serve the
God of Israel. And even though
his sons didn't all turn out great,
you know, they still
stuck with Jacob that whole time. Brother
brought that up. They still hung out with, you know,
he's like, go get food! And they did,
right? He's blind and can barely
get around, but they're still listening to their
dad. They still are part of the
family. And
the problem is, Esau
wasn't.
And there's ramifications
for you not
leading your family in the ways of the Lord.
There's ramifications for you quitting church
and just taking up your hobbies
or dialing it back.
You know, you think God doesn't know
you're dialing it back? He knows.
He knows your heart.
He knows whether you're really in it or not
or whether you're just showing up because you
need to make appearances so that people
aren't talking about you and saying, whoa, what's going on with so
and so?
Which we shouldn't be doing, but
our hearts can't help but think that.
When we see someone every day, or you know, we see
someone every service and then all of a sudden they're just
down to one service a week,
and then barely after that, they're barely here
after that. They barely
go soloing anymore. They're not really
involved in the church like they used to be.
God notices.
That's what's the most important. It doesn't matter whether I
notice it or not. It doesn't matter whether everybody
else notices it or not. God notices it.
God notices whether you're
really caring and loving for your family
and that you really care whether your children
get saved, or God really cares
whether you're doing things for the right reasons
and you're loving your family and wanting
them to succeed in life
in the next generation. You know what?
Abraham cared.
Isaac cared.
Jacob cared, and you should care
also. You're like, well, I don't have a family.
Well, be a family of one.
You can have your own. You can have a family.
They're your spiritual family.
And you can have kids, too.
Spiritual kids.
It doesn't have to only be just about
the physical things. Obviously,
we want to have physical children
so that they can get saved, and you can have
the second birth, too.
But as God's people,
look, we've got to have our families in order.
And when our families
are functional somewhat,
and our church is functional somewhat,
then our church
is going to be better off, our life
with God is going to be better off, our next generation
is going to be better off, and
when someone is chosen to be the
pastor, when I'm gone,
we need to get somebody that's going
to not be some loser that
runs the church into the ground.
That believes in repenting your
sins secretly.
And this is what happens.
You don't really see churches get past
one generation of greatness.
It always ends up failing for
some reason. And
I don't want that to happen to our church.
So, when it comes to
the next pastor, I
hope that it's going to be
someone that believes the same things
we do. Don't be like, well, Pastor Thompson was bad
at this, and he was bad at that, so let's just go to another
extreme. Don't do that.
Just,
you've got to stick with the old path.
And hey, stick in church.
You know, we're six years in,
some of you are eight years in,
in reality, we're, I'm eight years in,
but I don't want to stop
this train. I don't want to get off.
You know, things are going to
get tough in our lives,
in our families, things are going to get tough in our
church sometimes, but you know what, we've just got
to keep sowing the seed
and digging the wells.
Isaac, you know, his prime got past
at some point, and our
primes are going to get past, too, but let's
do the most we can while we're in
our primes, our spiritual primes,
and our physical primes, so that
we can affect the next generation
for the good. Alright, let's pray. Lord,
we thank you so much for this great church.
I pray, Lord, that you just bless our church
for the next year to come, and many
more years after this. I pray, Lord, right now
for the food we're about to receive,
and for the fellowship, and for the
sowing to come, and I pray, Lord, that your
spirit would be upon the men that preach tonight,
and we pray these things in
Jesus' precious name. Amen.
Song number
393 in your
blue hymn books, A Mighty Fortress
Is Our God.
Song 393,
let's sing it together on the first.
A mighty
fortress
is our God.
A
bulwark
never
prevailing.
Our
helper, he
amid the flood
of
mortal
hills prevailing.
For still
our ancient foe
does
seek to
work a
swan.
Left and power
are great,
and armed with
cruel
hate.
On earth is
not his
equal.
Did we
in our own
strength confide?
Our
striving would
be losing.
We're
not the right
men on our
side.
The men
of God's own
choosing.
Just
ask who that
may be.
Christ Jesus,
it is
he.
Lord,
lay off his
name.
From age to
age the same.
And
he must win
the battle.
And
though this
world with
devils
failed,
should threaten
to undo
us.
We will not
fear for God
have willed
his truth
to triumph
through us.
The
prince of darkness
grim.
We
tremble not for
him.
His rage we
can endure.
For
lo, his doom
is sure.
One little
word shall
fell him.
That
word above
all earthly
powers,
no thanks
to them
abideth.
The spirit
and the
gifts are us.
Through
him who with
the sighted
let
goods and
kindreds go.
This
mortal life
also
the body
they may
kill.
God's truth
abideth still.
His
kingdom is
forever.
Amen.
Good to see you brother Drew.
Could you close the door of prayer?